At the end of the rally, the White Nationalist unfurled a Nazi Flag, did the Nazi salute and shouted, "Heil." This provoked the counter protesters and they charged accross the street. One White Nationalist may have been arrested.

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While Indymedia is mostly false, pro illegal propoganda, this does show accurate pictures of White Nationalists that have shown up at Save our State Events. Lupe Moreno was distressed by their attendence and referred to them as the "Nazi Children."

The event could be titled "mass mobilzation" to "confront" the SOS/MMP/ Other Racists rhetoric of ignorance and hate. And this title wouldn't be a false given the images that so many have contributed about the action that took place in Baldwin Park the last Saturday, June 25, 2005. But if you were to soar high above the scene and look very carefully with good set of binoculars, you might see that much more was taking place than the images so far presented might show. You might notice that marching with signs wasn't the only resistance going on. Some of us resisted with politics woven in the fabric of poetry, song, dance, theatre, art and others forms of expression. Some of us thought it a more appropriate response to help build the culture of resistance, so that regular people could seize it for themselves

Among these people was Michael Heralda who taught people a song in their original language, Nauatl. Also contributing were students from Baldwin Park High School who wrote a play about "Pottie", the SOSer who had a bad bottle day, as well as their spoken word called "Letter to Joe Turner". Local SGV Jornaleros ( Day Laborers) spoke up about their struggles and gave poetry of their own. Bands like MEZKLAH and CIUAHTL TONALLI sang songs of resistance and revolution aganist the fear at the root of the SOS hysteria. FUPA Teatro layed down the history of a country made by robbery and lies. Judy Baca and SPARC Mural added their skit and amazing 90ft. mural to help explain how borders try to contain us all to no avail. Rudy Rude and BOOMARANG POLITICS slammed Joe Turner and the Minuteman Project with earth-shattering rhymes, and the militant AZTLAN UNDERGROUND closed the ceremony with its own musical assault on the foolishness of racism and imperialism, reminding everyone that, " We didn't cross the border; the border crossed us" There are many other contributors/conspirators who added their own impressions though they are not named here, but their contribution was felt among us who were open to them.

They were arrested for trespassing on railroad property. Of the 23 that were arrested, all but 2 were held for over 12 hours. As of 1 AM the police refused to book 3 of the arrestees.

A private corporation called Corrections Services Incorporated runs the Baldwin Park jail. According to reports the jailers took their time booking everybody and arbitrarily harassed several of the arrestees.

SOS supporters who walked threw a crowd of counter protester to go to a store. Funny, no one threw a water bottle at them.

The arrest pictures are on page 2.

http://www.saveourstate.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=2851

The media downplayed the arrests saying they were for treasspassing. What they fail to mention was that it was clearly an organized attempt to outflank and surround us.

The numbers were easily double what they were for BP1. CCIR was there in force, finally getting some justice for Anaheim 2001.

In addition we had a professional camera man on the other side from Kirkby TV who obtained hours of counter protesters. In addtion, many formers members of the military where there. Law enforcement was out if force and did an AWESOME job. Much thanks goes to behind the scene members of the immigration reform movement who worked behind the scenes with the FBI, LA County Sheriff and other loaw enforcement to ensure a safe protest.

"The reason the U.A.C. is involved this time is because the people who showed up to support the keeping of the monument was not just Mexicans or "Indians" as the monument states, but none other than radical Islamic extremists, you heard me right, people who seriously chanted the names of Zarquawi and Bin Laden...think I am joking? no...seriously........"

My name is Stacey O'Connell, Im a resident of Phoenix Arizona. Im also a Minuteman from April. I also belong to Minuteman Civil Defense Corps out of Tombstone Az. I heard all about the BP and GG episodes, along with reviewing the videos, and Im coming to BP2. I cant believe the bullshit that goes on in LA.

Right now, Ive got a few MM from AZ coming with me, all of us former Marines or Army...we are still young and ready to show our flag in the faces of La Raza, MeCha and any other group that stands to oppose the USA. Personally, Ive written to all the BP city leaders in the disgust of what they call a monument and its radical statements. We are coming to Baldwin Park.

Next thing you folks from California should work on is your gun laws. Open carry in these situations makes up for the lack of law enforcement that was obvious last BP episode.

Semper Fi. MARINE1

Greeting PRK members. My name is Jim Wade and i hail from Arizona. I'm an April Minuteman (Huachucha line), a member in good standing of the ongoing efforts to secure our borders here in Arizona, a Marine, and a damn proud American. My friend Stacey (Marine1) led me to your site here and i must say well done. Seeing what happened to Dottie pissed me off to no end. I detest gutless people who have to hide their face to protest, and i REALLY hate folks that have to hide and commit acts of violence against a peaceful protest. It will be my honor to show up for the rally in BP on the 25th, and i will be spreading the word to all outlets at my disposal... can't wait to see y'all there... Semper Fi... Jim

Ca_minuteman, Vince, and Gilcrest, walk an American flag to the protesters. The protesters were loud and obnoxious but no worse than usual, but JIm got very upset that with the flags being held up OVER the American flab. He and a small group took a large flag and walked it over the protesters. When Vince stood side by side with Jim, and held the American flag the crowd went nuts, screaming and yelling "coconut" and "traitor." It was the only time things got ugly. A reporter then told JIm he was upsetting the crowd with the American Flag. Jim got "into it a little bit with the reporter. Jim later had Vince up on stage and Lupe brought him up on stage as well.

Protest planned against Jim Gilcrest. I did not post this because the opposition has noticed my screen name and figured out who I am and made some threats. You can get more info at save our sate dot org.

"I'm sending this message out to make people aware of the fact that Jim Gilchrist, the founder of the fascist "Minuteman Project", will be speaking at the Garden Grove Women's Club on Wednesday, May 25th at 7:30 pm.

Gilchrist has been invited to speak there by the California Coalition for Immigration Reform (C.C.I.R.), one of the groups responsible for putting the racist Proposition 187 on the California ballot in 1994.

I live a couple of miles away from the Garden Grove Women's Club, and I know as a fact there is a fairly long public sidewalk that surrounds the building which houses it. It's also right next to a major street.

Although I'm not currently involved in organizing a counterdemonstration, I think one definitely needs to take place! We need to show our strong opposition to racism, fascism, and xenophobia!

Sincerely,

Duane J. Roberts

Comments He is going to get slammed

If even a 10th of the people that came out for Baldwin Hills show up for this, that guy will need a police escort to get in and out of that hall.

Idea: Dress up like neo-cons and buy a ticket to get in. It' s worth the five bucks just for a chance to rush the stage and grab the mic. :-)

Also they will have to sneak him in and out of the back. So be sure to picket the building on all sides. Not just the front.